Why is equitable division of labor seen as racist, predjudice, ect...

[Axeman]

This is something that is constantly bothering me and really annoys me, in everything from small tasks being divided between a group of people, to a family unit, to the military, ect...

Let us examine each of a few scenarios including some I have personally experienced...

1: The team doing a job
-When you are lumped together with a group of people for an assignment, be it school, work, family unit, ect... It only makes sense that work be divided to people best in certain skills. This is infarct why we have society working together in the first place, while the electrician may not be enjoying his job or be the best at it, he is most likely proficient, same with the architect, the day laborer, the ballet dancer, ect.. Each have a varying degree of importance, prestige, workload ect...

This is however far too general, so lets just narrow it down to a group of people working on an assignment, like for instance this actually happened to me recently. While I have a disdain for political correctness in every way shape or form, I think this simply goes beyond political correctness as it is perceived we either reach one extreme of the "division spectrum" or the other.

Me and a group of students had to play a game of devil's advocate with the professor tomorrow. Our group consisted of myself, the pasty white public speaker with an affinity for vocabulary and history. There was an Asian female at university from Indonesia who was very good at mathematics, statistics, measuring, ect.. There was then a scruffy-ish tan-ish person *I guess a mix between Arab and white, fairly fair skinned* and we needed to get data, construct a table, ect...

When I volunteered to be a speaker, and when nobody objected I decided to be leader. The Asian, was of course for the sake of the story and irony, great at math. We needed a lot of case studies and statistics as well as equations and trends to prove our point we didn't agree with. The arab was to be honest a useless gangrene to our team and I told him to build the little stand we would need to hold everything and make a few physical diagrams of compressors and carbonators if need be.

Now of course, I get painted a Nazi, turns out having the pasty white guy speak, the Asian doing math, and the Arab building were offensive, turns out stereotypes exist for a reason . Out of spite, and since I had a good grade, we decided to switch places. I, the one who is blind in one eye, got to build the sets. The quiet shy asian girl got to speak and argue with the professor in a debate, and the Arab who was here on a free ride from his rich daddy's paycheck got to do the math. Guess how the project turned out?

Why is it that human beings, not just perpetuated by an idiotic plague of political correctivity and non-invasive thoughts, react to such things with hostility.

However I come with you not only with my own example but others.

On the Discovery Channel show "Colony" *stupid show, only watched one episode, one of the reasons why was it tryed to throw itself off as survivor, but..* The men are out Roadwarrior style in Los Angelles looking for water and doing manual labor, while the women are maintaining their warehouse in which they plan to live forever. One of the women becomes naturally angry for no reason for the sake of drama because the men are the ones who get to do all the tough work while she has to, gosh, tidy up. So they trade places, she gets to shingle a roof, she fails completely, the man gets it done in about the same time she did, yet sympathy of the "clan" remained with the upstart woman.

Not just on TV with producers exploiting the feelings we all inevitably have of course. In the family unit many times when a woman stays home and the man works 12 hours, the man gets home and is expected to do more. Yes men should help, not be slobs, not be bad parents, stay home once and a while and help the wife and child. But why is it that the man, after working already, should be dusting when the woman may have been home all day with such grueling tasks as dusting and laundry to do while the man may have been lifting heavy objects. On the same dime if the man is unemployed and the woman is out working hard, guess who should be picking up the slack?

But Axeman! What if they are both working? Well you divide by 2 again there Johnny...

This really requires no further scenarios and explanations and at this point if you don't get it don't post, but I want to hear your opinions on this.

[Pious Agnost]

Now of course, I get painted a Nazi, turns out having the pasty white guy speak, the Asian doing math, and the Arab building were offensive, turns out stereotypes exist for a reason . Out of spite, and since I had a good grade, we decided to switch places. I, the one who is blind in one eye, got to build the sets. The quiet shy asian girl got to speak and argue with the professor in a debate, and the Arab who was here on a free ride from his rich daddy's paycheck got to do the math. Guess how the project turned out?

Who painted you a Nazi?

I imagine here they would just get an odd look and then be ignored